Texas El Paso Eyes Axman

Axman met with UTEP Athletic Director Bob Stull and said he expects the school to make a decision sometime next week.

"Every time I've come out of an interview, I always think that I could have done better, but I thought I answered all their questions well," said Axman, in the first year of his second stint as UCLA's coordinator. "I had a pretty good plan.... Hopefully it's a plan that they like."

Axman, who was the head coach at Northern Arizona in 1990-97, has made no secret about his desire to become a head coach again. He said he made that clear to UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell.

"That's something that I was up front with him about," Axman said. "He's supported me 100% in that endeavor."

Former Hawaii and Arizona coach Dick Tomey appears to have emerged as a leading candidate for the job. Tomey is an assistant with the San Francisco 49ers.